Mounting a folder to a Docker container allows you to share data back and forth on your host system. It’s a great feature to have especially on Windows where command line editors are not as native to the OS as they are with Unix/Linux. Docker environment Your mileage may vary with the information cited in this article depending on the version of Docker you are using. My setup at the time of this writing is…

While starting to explore Docker Desktop on Windows I found the documentation a bit confusing in some areas. Specifically I was curious to see where Docker stores it’s images and how to modify that storage location. I have a 6TB drive I like to storage large files on and the standard system “C” drive was not going to cut it. I initially explored the Docker desktop settings looking for where I could set a path for data storage.

This article is an excerpt from a presentation I did for the Toronto Unreal Engine Meetup on hints and tips with Unreal Engine. In some cases you may want to understand what assets are being loaded at startup/load of your Unreal Engine game. Tracking down issues during this time can be tricky because there’s not many UE4 systems initialized that you can hook into to understand the problem. One of the ways to assist with this is the -LoadTimeFile command line flag.

While working recently on a markdown document in Visual Studio code I started searching for 3rd party apps to preview markdown text. I use the awesome bearapp for note taking and hoped that it offered real time mark down preview. Sadly it does not. They do however suggest using Marked2 for this purpose and this does work great but is a premium/paid option. If you are looking for a great free option and don’t need a deep feature set in your preview capabilities Visual Studio Code already offers a markdown preview…Right click on your markdown file in the project and select Open Preview.

Introduction Terraform.io is a great scripting system for building systems as Code to provision and manage any cloud, infrastructure, or service It has a number of great features though while working with some Terraform script trying to get an AWS Lambda function uploaded I was receiving a very unhelpful Validation Exception error message… Error: Error creating Lambda function: ValidationException: status code: 400, request id: a6df0378-63eb-4b7f-92c5-7a8217b5eaea Here is a focus on the AWS Lambda declaration block in Terraform code…